Wednesday, February 13, 2013

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair Anti-Christian

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair lashed out at evangelical Christian
groups Monday, accusing them of going "completely against" Canadian
values and law with their beliefs about homosexuality.

Christianity is a religion and the last time I looked freedom of religion is protected in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms under Section 2, Fundamental Freedoms starting with the preamble.

Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law:

Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms

Marginal note:Rights and freedoms in Canada

1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such
reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a
free and democratic society.

The founders of this country built Canada on the Word of God, as can be seen in many examples. The name “Dominion of Canada”, the motto of Canada, “He shall have dominion from sea to sea” and the phrase on Canada’s coat of arms “A mari usque ad mare” (Latin for: From sea to sea”) are taken from PSALM 72:8.When, in 1866, the fathers of Confederation were assembled to discuss the terms for uniting the Canadian provinces, Leonard Tilley - premier of New Brunswick - suggested the word “Dominion” from PSALM 72 for the new country. A letter signed by John A. MacDonald - Canada’s first prime minister - explained to Queen Victoria that
the name was “a tribute to the principles they earnestly desired to
uphold.” The last province to join Canada was Newfoundland whose motto
is “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (MATTHEW 6:33).From Jacques Cartier to Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, Chritianity played a major role. Even in education system was founded by the Christain faith.

In 1533, Jacques Cartier
sailed up the St. Lawrence River to Montréal. To commemorate the
founding of Montréal, Cartier wrote in his diary “…we all kneeled down
in the company of the Indians and with our hands raised toward heaven
yielded our thanks to God.”

The “Father of New France,” Samuel de Champlain,
wrote in his diary about the natives, “…(the aborigines are) living
without God and without religion…I thereupon concluded in my private
judgement that I should be committing a great sin if I did not make it
my business to devise some means of bringing them to the knowledge of
God.”

In 1886, William Howland
ran for Mayor of Toronto. During his campaign, Howland would urge
voters, “Let us keep the city, a God-fearing city, and I would rather
see it thus than the greatest and richest city in the continent”. He won
and became Toronto’s 25th Mayor.

David Thompson,
explorer and statesman, developed maps from his surveys between 1784
and 1812. Many of his maps are still being used today. Thompson’s words
give the reason he endured the physical hardship of exploration “so that
these physically impenetrable barriers may be traversed and the Gospel
be spread.”

Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick and one of the Fathers of Confederation,
rose each morning to start his day with prayer and Scripture reading.
As the 33 fathers gathered in Charlottetown to discuss and draft the
terms of the British North American Act, there are were many suggestions
on what to call this new “United Canada.” That morning, as Tilley read
from Psalm 72:8, he became so convinced that Canada should be a nation
under God, that when he came down to the Conference session, he
presented the inspired “Dominion of Canada.” The other Fathers readily
agreed and accepted. Today, The following words hang in the corridor
near the confederation Chamber in Province House: “In the hearts of the
delegates who assembled in this room on September 1, 1864, was born the
Dominion of Canada. Providence being their guide they builded better
then they knew.”

The Education System

Bishop John Strachan,
a leader who helped form our public education system, stated that “the
church must continue to play a central role in education. You cannot
divorce religion from education because schools will inevitably reflect
the philosophical and religious or (irreligious) biases of those who
direct them.”

Egerton Ryerson,
father of public education in Canada, wanted a “common patriotic ground
of comprehensiveness and avowed (or maintain) Christian principles.” He
wrote the textbook First Lessons in Christian Morals which was published in 1871. Ryerson clearly said that the Ontario school system was to be a “Christian public school system.”

Many of our greatest Canadian universities were founded as denominational seminaries to educate future church leaders:

-King’s College in Nova Scotia, now know as Dalhousie University, was founded by the Anglicans.

-The University of Ottawa, founded by the Roman Catholic Church, and one of Canada’s first bilingual Universities. (Corrected as of December 14, 2010)

-McMaster University, was founded by the Baptists.

The Ontario Public School Act
of 1896 stated that “It shall be the duty of every teacher of a public
school to teach diligently and faithfully all of the subjects in the
public school course of study; to maintain proper order and discipline
in his pupils in his school; to encourage his pupils in the pursuit of
learning; to include, by precept and example, respect for religion and
the principles of Christian morality and the highest regard for truth,
justice, love of country, humanity, benevolence, sobriety, industry,
frugality, purity, temperance and all other virtues.”

Could it also be the sadness of knowing that Douglas, during his time
as federal leader of the NDP, believed homosexuality, even though
decriminalized, should be "recognized for what it is -- a mental
illness, a psychiatric condition, which ought to be treated
sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers?"